David Eubank
Columbia Falls, MT United States
As an Artist, I work from my visual impressions, memories and internal feelings about a subject. Living and working in Montana, I have experienced the natural environment through many seasons. Returning to the same place many times over the years. Se... More
Artist Statement:
As an Artist, I work from my visual impressions, memories and internal feelings about a subject. Living and working in Montana, I have experienced the natural environment through many seasons. Returning to the same place many times over the years. Seeing and experiencing the many stories the same location can tell you. I use digital impressions of the place and time, combined with the memory of the experience to create my artwork.
Living with and how we make art has become more important than ever before. We are living is an age governed by Moore’s Law. Gordon Moore predicted that digital computing power would double every year, at a reduced cost. He was however short sighted. Originally he set a ten-year time line, but his prediction has been true for over forty years now and the end is nowhere in sight. In 1965 he never imagined how technology would change the future. The digital age is unlike any age we have experienced before in human history. The need to stop and rest at a welcome oasis is more important today than ever before in our human past. Art is an oasis, a place to stop and think about our human experiences.
The natural landscape has become a focus of my work. Today the natural environment seems far removed from our rapid technical advancements. At the same time the power of our technical progress has enabled us to identify a fatal flaw in our progress as we speed toward an uncertain future. The threat of an environmental catastrophe is now upon us.
The effects of Global Climate Change are present and observable to anyone who cares to look. The evidence is in front of our eyes. I have been lucky enough to stand on a glacier and look at the bugs, leaves and other natural material trapped in the ice for millennium. Our glaciers are shrinking every minute of every day and our natural landscape is changing. Rapid development fueled by the accelerated by the power of our new technology threatens every inch of space on the globe. Poor resource management threatens society as it exists today and will determine the society of tomorrow. Our natural landscape is changing at an alarming rate. Walt Disney’s Tomorrow Land never envisioned the future we seem to be heading towards.
As an artist the new digital technology has enabled me to make art about my experience living and working in the natural environment, the landscape. My artwork is a rest stop for you to ponder unformed thoughts and ideas about where you are. The Landscape for me is a study of where I have been. My art is about what I feel and what I see, though the two are married within me as the artist. Using new digital technology is an adventure in my life as an artist, I will be looking for and exploring the next idea, the next artwork or the next way to make art. It is a Pioneer thing; we are the descendants of special people who took great risks with their lives and acted on their ideas. We should act on ours, even if we risk stepping outside the bracket that frames our comfortable world.
About my work.
The process I use to make my images is based on the Cartesian coordinate system, used in mathematics. /data/cartesian-ml
However because I am using digital technology the traditional system is described as the Cartesian Cube because digital space is multi dimensional. The law of entropy also plays an important role. When you take a photograph the lens concentrates the most information, light in the center of the film plane or digital senor. As you move towards the edge of the film plane less information is collected or captured. Using the Cartesian math theory. Joining images on the edge, forces the void to fill with information captured at the time the photographs were was taken. However the additional, extra information isn’t really visible to the naked eye because it is noise. This can be described as Overfitting.
In machine learning apophenia is an example of what is known as overfitting. Apophenia is the, "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", Klaus Conrad. Apophenia has come to imply a universal human tendency to seek patterns in random information. Overfitting occurs when a statistical model fits the noise rather than the signal. The model overfits the particular data or observations rather than fitting a generalizable pattern in a general population. The process I use is similar to making a panoramic photograph. Except I use images that are not related to one another like you would use if you were making a panoramic landscape. This forces the images to overfit and fill the void with noise.
Now if you want to make the leap to quantum physics. All information, (light is considered information) once it exists it always exists. So a photograph, or your own eyes see or create images based on light particles, information, reaching your retina the film plane or digital sensor. The largest concentration of information is in the center of focus. Left over information particles may still be present everywhere? Think of it like your peripheral vision. Have you ever thought you saw something out of the corner of your eye? I think the senor captures this information. When the photos are joined on the edges where information is the least. This residual leftover information fills in the blanks where entropy and what is described as overfitting is at work. Pretty crazy huh?
Additionally, the reason you see various designs and images is because of Pareidolia. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
That is why you may see images of animal, faces and object in my artwork. Pareidolia is the visual or auditory form of apophenia, which is the perception of patterns within random data. Because you have your own unique life experience’s you may see patterns in the work that only you see.
Living with and how we make art has become more important than ever before. We are living is an age governed by Moore’s Law. Gordon Moore predicted that digital computing power would double every year, at a reduced cost. He was however short sighted. Originally he set a ten-year time line, but his prediction has been true for over forty years now and the end is nowhere in sight. In 1965 he never imagined how technology would change the future. The digital age is unlike any age we have experienced before in human history. The need to stop and rest at a welcome oasis is more important today than ever before in our human past. Art is an oasis, a place to stop and think about our human experiences.
The natural landscape has become a focus of my work. Today the natural environment seems far removed from our rapid technical advancements. At the same time the power of our technical progress has enabled us to identify a fatal flaw in our progress as we speed toward an uncertain future. The threat of an environmental catastrophe is now upon us.
The effects of Global Climate Change are present and observable to anyone who cares to look. The evidence is in front of our eyes. I have been lucky enough to stand on a glacier and look at the bugs, leaves and other natural material trapped in the ice for millennium. Our glaciers are shrinking every minute of every day and our natural landscape is changing. Rapid development fueled by the accelerated by the power of our new technology threatens every inch of space on the globe. Poor resource management threatens society as it exists today and will determine the society of tomorrow. Our natural landscape is changing at an alarming rate. Walt Disney’s Tomorrow Land never envisioned the future we seem to be heading towards.
As an artist the new digital technology has enabled me to make art about my experience living and working in the natural environment, the landscape. My artwork is a rest stop for you to ponder unformed thoughts and ideas about where you are. The Landscape for me is a study of where I have been. My art is about what I feel and what I see, though the two are married within me as the artist. Using new digital technology is an adventure in my life as an artist, I will be looking for and exploring the next idea, the next artwork or the next way to make art. It is a Pioneer thing; we are the descendants of special people who took great risks with their lives and acted on their ideas. We should act on ours, even if we risk stepping outside the bracket that frames our comfortable world.
About my work.
The process I use to make my images is based on the Cartesian coordinate system, used in mathematics. /data/cartesian-ml
However because I am using digital technology the traditional system is described as the Cartesian Cube because digital space is multi dimensional. The law of entropy also plays an important role. When you take a photograph the lens concentrates the most information, light in the center of the film plane or digital senor. As you move towards the edge of the film plane less information is collected or captured. Using the Cartesian math theory. Joining images on the edge, forces the void to fill with information captured at the time the photographs were was taken. However the additional, extra information isn’t really visible to the naked eye because it is noise. This can be described as Overfitting.
In machine learning apophenia is an example of what is known as overfitting. Apophenia is the, "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", Klaus Conrad. Apophenia has come to imply a universal human tendency to seek patterns in random information. Overfitting occurs when a statistical model fits the noise rather than the signal. The model overfits the particular data or observations rather than fitting a generalizable pattern in a general population. The process I use is similar to making a panoramic photograph. Except I use images that are not related to one another like you would use if you were making a panoramic landscape. This forces the images to overfit and fill the void with noise.
Now if you want to make the leap to quantum physics. All information, (light is considered information) once it exists it always exists. So a photograph, or your own eyes see or create images based on light particles, information, reaching your retina the film plane or digital sensor. The largest concentration of information is in the center of focus. Left over information particles may still be present everywhere? Think of it like your peripheral vision. Have you ever thought you saw something out of the corner of your eye? I think the senor captures this information. When the photos are joined on the edges where information is the least. This residual leftover information fills in the blanks where entropy and what is described as overfitting is at work. Pretty crazy huh?
Additionally, the reason you see various designs and images is because of Pareidolia. Pareidolia is a psychological phenomenon involving a stimulus (an image or a sound) wherein the mind perceives a familiar pattern of something where none actually exists.
That is why you may see images of animal, faces and object in my artwork. Pareidolia is the visual or auditory form of apophenia, which is the perception of patterns within random data. Because you have your own unique life experience’s you may see patterns in the work that only you see.
Artist Tags:
landscape, experimental, surrealism, entropy
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